Top chess players under 21 in California
The 26 highest-rated players from California on the national US Chess list for October 2026. Anyone from California who isn’t listed is rated below them. The US column shows each player’s national rank. Movement is measured against September 2026.
Gender
| # | Player | US | Rating | Movevs last month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christopher Woojin Yoo | #3 | 2640-20 | No change |
| 2 | Kirk Ghazarian | #5 | 2602-11 | 1 place down nationally since last month |
| 3 | Vyom Vidyarthi | #20 | 2497+23 | 3 places up nationally since last month |
| 4 | Julian Colville | #24 | 2473+8 | 1 place up nationally since last month |
| 5 | Isaac Wang | #25 | 2460+1 | 2 places up nationally since last month |
| 6 | Eric Yuhan Li | #31 | 2440+10 | 3 places up nationally since last month |
| 7 | Paris Prestia | #36 | 2423+38 | 17 places up nationally since last month |
| 8 | Ethan Guo | #38 | 2420-7 | 3 places down nationally since last month |
| 9 | Bryan Xie | #41 | 2415 | No change |
| 10 | Rose Atwell | #42 | 2410-8 | 4 places down nationally since last month |
| 11 | David Gasparyan | #45 | 2400+49 | 27 places up nationally since last month |
| 12 | Dylan Tang | #50 | 2397+9 | 2 places up nationally since last month |
| 12 | Lucas Jiang | #50 | 2397-18 | 9 places down nationally since last month |
| 14 | Shaaketh Sivakumar | #59 | 2379+58 | 39 places up nationally since last month |
| 15 | Henry Deng | #64 | 2372 | 6 places down nationally since last month |
| 16 | Patrick Peijun Liu | #66 | 2361+4 | 1 place down nationally since last month |
| 17 | Tommy Wen | #70 | 2354 | 1 place up nationally since last month |
| 17 | Austin R Mei | #70 | 2354-1 | No change |
| 19 | Luke Widjaja | #74 | 2345 | 1 place down nationally since last month |
| 20 | Aryan Achuthan | #79 | 2339 | 1 place down nationally since last month |
| 20 | Jashith Karthi | #79 | 2339+2 | 3 places up nationally since last month |
| 22 | Ming Lu | #81 | 2338 | 1 place down nationally since last month |
| 23 | Rohan Rajaram | #85 | 2336 | No change |
| 24 | Ashwin Damaraju | #86 | 2335 | No change |
| 25 | Rochelle Wu | #95 | 2327 | 3 places down nationally since last month |
| 26 | Pranav Sathish | #98 | 2323 | 3 places down nationally since last month |